Service-Oriented Architecture Compass: Business Value, Planning, and Enterprise Roadmap

Forewords

Computing has evolved in dramatic ways since the first abstracting systems were developed in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In the ensuing decades, the usual metrics associated with computing have increased by many orders of magnitude: speed of computation, capability to store and retrieve information, capability to transmit information, programmability, and so on. The twenty-first century is witnessing yet another transformation of computing: its immersion into a networked environment. The confluence of computing and communication has produced a fertile environment for innovation and reinvention in computation. This book is about one very important example of new thinking: the so-called Service-Oriented Architecture.

The potential applicability ...